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2023 OUTLINE OF THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR

and to officially recognize personal status. Registrations required by the Household Registration Act are
as follows:
1. Personal Status Registration: This includes registration of births, registration of parentage, adoptions,
termination of adoptions, marriages, divorces, legal guardianship and assistance, the exercise and re-

sponsibility of the rights and obligations over minor children, deaths, presumption of death, and indige-
nous status and tribal groups.
2. Initial Household Registration.
3. Registrations of Movement: Moving-out Registration, Moving-in Registration, and Address Alter-

ation Registration.
4. Household Separation/Combination Registration.
5. Birth Place Registration.
6. Registration according to other laws.

Statistics on population registrations for 2022 are provided in Table 3-1.

Table 3-1 Population Registration
2022 Unit: Persons; Couples
Item of Registration Total Male Female
Population at the End of Year 23 264 640 11 499 136 11 765 504

Immigration 1 086 712 497 466 589 246
Emigration 1 129 142 529 203 599 939

Birth 138 986 72 097 66 889
Death 207 230 119 920 87 310
Registration of Parentage 3 444 1 797 1 647

Adoption 1 667 794 873
Termination of Adoption 882 420 462

Marriage (Couples) 124 997 - -
Opposite Sex 122 520 - -
Same Sex 2 477 685 1 792

Divorce/Terminated Marriage (Couples) 50 609 - -
Opposite Sex 49 997 - -
Same Sex 612 158 454

Note: 1. Immigration includes moving in from a foreign country, moving in from other jurisdictional domiciliary areas (township, city, dis-
trict), initial household registration, etc.
2. Emigration includes moving out to a foreign country, moving out of the jurisdictional area (township, city, district), annulment regis-
tration, etc.
3. The information in this table is based on the registration dates.
4. Since May 2019, two people of the same gender can go to a household registration office to apply for marriage or to terminate a mar-
riage registration; the statistics of marriage or divorce/terminated marriage have been added and categorized by "Opposite Sex" and
"Same Sex."
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